Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660This magisterial new history of seventeenth-century republican political culture sets key texts by Marvell and Milton in a richly detailed context, showing how writers re-imagined English political and literary culture without kingship. The book draws on extensive archival research, bringing to light exciting and neglected manuscript and printed sources. Offering a bold new narrative of the whole period, and a timely reminder that England has a republican as well as royalist heritage, it will be of compelling interest to historians as well as literary scholars. |
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... regicide . The blurring of any distinction between the Commonwealth and the Protectorate in the national memory is ... Regicides , American Historical Review 17 ( 1911-12 ) , 268-89 . The ferocity of the anti - republican crackdown in ...
... regicide . The blurring of any distinction between the Commonwealth and the Protectorate in the national memory is ... Regicides , American Historical Review 17 ( 1911-12 ) , 268-89 . The ferocity of the anti - republican crackdown in ...
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... regicide and Britain's peaceful evolution . " This involved a strategic silence about the regicidal revolution of 1649 , which had been taken as one point of reference by the French revolutionaries . Milton's Defence of the English ...
... regicide and Britain's peaceful evolution . " This involved a strategic silence about the regicidal revolution of 1649 , which had been taken as one point of reference by the French revolutionaries . Milton's Defence of the English ...
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... regicide phenomenon as its oppos- ing ideology ; it was subscribed to by people who had not been exceptionally vigorous in preventing his demise . Though there was an eclipse for much of the eighteenth century , republicanism underwent ...
... regicide phenomenon as its oppos- ing ideology ; it was subscribed to by people who had not been exceptionally vigorous in preventing his demise . Though there was an eclipse for much of the eighteenth century , republicanism underwent ...
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... regicide.26 At this time Thomas May still retained a certain stature , his history of the Long Parliament vying with Clarendon's royalist version down to the mid - nineteenth century , when the last ' modern ' edition appeared . Southey ...
... regicide.26 At this time Thomas May still retained a certain stature , his history of the Long Parliament vying with Clarendon's royalist version down to the mid - nineteenth century , when the last ' modern ' edition appeared . Southey ...
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... regicide and then to the Restoration , to show how far from inevitable these events seemed to con- temporaries . For all these mutations , however , republicans were able to find long - term continuities which had helped to give meaning ...
... regicide and then to the Restoration , to show how far from inevitable these events seemed to con- temporaries . For all these mutations , however , republicans were able to find long - term continuities which had helped to give meaning ...
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Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook Limited preview - 1999 |
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660 David Norbrook No preview available - 1999 |
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